Hi, does anybody have any pointers on where to look to learn how to
write custom dynamic templates? Agile is a little sparse on this (but
otherwise superb)!
Thanx
James McCarthy wrote:
Hi, does anybody have any pointers on where to look to learn how to
write custom dynamic templates? Agile is a little sparse on this (but
otherwise superb)!
Which part do you want to learn about? Writing pages in (X)HTML,
hooking templates into Rails, or using ERb (Embedded Ruby) to
dynamically generate HTML? Or partials, layouts, helpers, etc? Writing
view templates is a pretty broad topic.
This recent article might be a good starting point if you are a web
designer:
http://glu.ttono.us/articles/2006/03/21/rails-for-designers
Josh S. wrote:
Which part do you want to learn about? Writing pages in (X)HTML,
hooking templates into Rails, or using ERb (Embedded Ruby) to
dynamically generate HTML? Or partials, layouts, helpers, etc? Writing
view templates is a pretty broad topic.
Sorry Josh I wasn’t specific enough, less haste…
I was looking to write a rails template handler as I am having to write
multiple cascading partials and the whole thing is becomming rather
messy and un-DRY.
So in a nutshell “how do I write custom rails template handlers”.
Thanks.
James McCarthy wrote:
I was looking to write a rails template handler as I am having to write
multiple cascading partials and the whole thing is becomming rather
messy and un-DRY.So in a nutshell “how do I write custom rails template handlers”.
Oh, that’s an equine in a different band of the visual spectrum. I
haven’t found much docs on that (and I’ve looked). Probably the best
thing to do is to look at existing examples, like Markaby and RCSS (on
rubyforge.org). And there is a small example in the Rails sources
tests:
rails/actionpack/test/controller/custom_handler_test.rb
So in a nutshell “how do I write custom rails template handlers”.
Oh, that’s an equine in a different band of the visual spectrum. I
haven’t found much docs on that (and I’ve looked). Probably the best
thing to do is to look at existing examples, like Markaby and RCSS (on
rubyforge.org). And there is a small example in the Rails sources
tests:
rails/actionpack/test/controller/custom_handler_test.rb
Thanks josh, will give them a gander.
James McCarthy wrote:
I was looking to write a rails template handler as I am having to write
multiple cascading partials and the whole thing is becomming rather
messy and un-DRY.So in a nutshell “how do I write custom rails template handlers”.
Oh, that’s an equine in a different band of the visual spectrum. I
haven’t found much docs on that (and I’ve looked). Probably the best
thing to do is to look at existing examples, like Markaby and RCSS (on
rubyforge.org). And there is a small example in the Rails sources
tests:
rails/actionpack/test/controller/custom_handler_test.rb